Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-16
l SHALL FIND REST.
4 little farther on

4 little farther on
There will h.. tirne-I shall f.ni rest anon:
Thus do we say, while eager youth invites
Young hope to try her wings in wanton flights
And nimble fancy builds the soul nest
In some far crag; but soon youths fame Is
Burned lightly out-while we repeat the Jest
With smiling CONFIDENCE shall find rest
A little farther on.
A little farther on
shall find rest; half fiercely we ayow
When noon beats on the dusty field and care
Threats to unjoint our armor, and the glare
Throbs with the pulse of battle, while life's best
Flies with the fitting stars; the frenzied brow
Pains for the laurel more than for the breast,
Where love soft nesting waits. Not now, not
now,
With feverish breath we cry, / shall find rest
little farther on.
A little farther on
shall find rest: half sad, at last, we say,
When sorrows settling cloud blurs out the CLEAN
OF glory's torch, and to a vanished dream
Loves palace hath been turned, then-au de-
pressed.
Despairing. sick at heart-we may not stay
Our weary feet SO lonely then doth seem
This shadow haunted world. We, so unblest,
Weep not to see the grave which waits its
guest;
And feeling round our feet the cool, sweet clay,
We speak the fading world farewell and say:
Not on this side-alas!-I shall find rest
little farther ON. Century
For three miles the bank behind the
towpath is very high and compactly built,
with willows thickly planted, veritable
bulwark against the Delaware, which
sweeps along short distance away. In
tho tho v.1-ov TO ha
banks, and is a constant source of danger.
At such times the path walker is on duty
day and night, plugging the smallest holes
with sod, filing in where the rain has
started a gully. and building the bank
higher where it has washed away. In
ordinary times each walker has stretch
of fourteen miles to watch. He walks
down the towpath one day and back on
the heelpath the next, with a shovel or
pick to make repairs, or armed with a
scythe to trim the briers, ivies and elders.
His worst enemy Is the muskrat, whose
holes, running far into the bank, may at
any moment make an outlet and become
a dangerous break. Against these raw
ages the company supply a special guar
dian in the person of the ratter. The
whole length of the canal is divided
up sSSCidA utCi WIN uldhC
it their business to trap musk
rats all the year round. They use
an ordinary steel trap without teeth,
which they set as near as possible in the
path of the main entrance or regularly
used track to the rat hole. The men are
paid wages by the day, and the noses and
tails are redeemed by the company at fif-
teen cents once month. The pelts belong
to the ratter, and are cured by him, to be
sold later at an average of about eighteen
cents each. Any rat trapped within
mile of the canal is legitimate catch, and
days work is from ten to fifteen.
'What harm can rat do mile awayS'
asked Scraps.
''He may come over here any fine morn
ing, and if he don't, his children will.
You can't count on rat till he is skinned.
l have been trapping them thirteen years,
and l don't know all their ways yet.
Sometimes they are too cunning to go
within ten feet of a mans track, and
other times they will walk into a bag and
lie down. ''-'S nubbin' Through Jersey"
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